This means that the compute, storage and services layers in Snowflake’s architecture are hosted entirely on either cloud platform. If your organization’s other cloud services are already hosted on either AWS or Microsoft Azure, the choice of platform can be straightforward.

Differences in unit costs for credits and data storage are calculated by geographical region and not by cloud provider. For more information about pricing as it pertains to a specific region, see the pricing page (in the Snowflake website).

Features and Services Currently Unavailable with Microsoft Azure Hosting¶

We aim to provide the same Snowflake experience regardless of the cloud platform provider customers choose; however, the following services and features are currently unavailable with Snowflake accounts hosted on Azure:

Initially, Azure hosting is offered exclusively in the East US 2 region, with Snowflake deployments in additional regions to follow. Data files stored in any region in Azure Blob Storage (or in AWS S3) can be loaded into tables in a Snowflake account.

Alert notifications via email. Notifications are currently available via the web interface only.

Partner Applications

Limited partner application support. As part of the preview, the following Snowflake partners have been provided with Azure accounts and are testing connectivity and feature support. To verify the current status of application support for Snowflake on Azure, contact the individual partner directly:

Ab Initio

Attunity

Informatica

Matillion

Paxata

Qubole

Talend

Note that the native Snowflake clients all support Snowflake on Azure.